From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: by befuddled.reisers.ca (Postfix, from userid 65534) id 7B5A11F0388; Tue, 4 Apr 2017 19:10:02 -0400 (EDT) Received: from hurricane.the-brannons.com (hurricane.the-brannons.com [71.19.155.94]) by befuddled.reisers.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 080A01F0314 for ; Tue, 4 Apr 2017 19:10:01 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (unknown [IPv6:2602:61:78fe:5f00::63a:26e7]) by hurricane.the-brannons.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 49ABC77DC4 for ; Tue, 4 Apr 2017 16:09:41 -0700 (PDT) From: Chris Brannon To: speakup@linux-speakup.org Subject: Re: bluetooth query References: Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2017 16:09:46 -0700 In-Reply-To: (Kirk Reiser's message of "Sat, 1 Apr 2017 13:08:34 -0400 (EDT)") Message-ID: <87tw63hirp.fsf@the-brannons.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Bogosity: Ham, tests=bogofilter, spamicity=0.000000, version=1.2.4 X-BeenThere: speakup@linux-speakup.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2017 23:10:02 -0000 Yes, you can run Speakup through a bluetooth headset. As I said earlier in the thread, bluez-alsa is a dead-end. I finally had to make my peace with pulseaudio over the last couple days. In order to use it with one of the Speakup softsynth options, you must run pulse in system mode. The pulse developers strongly discourage this. One of their biggest reasons is security concerns in a multiuser setup. Frankly, I could care less, because the machines in my house are just used by me or my partner. It's not like we're in a corporate environment. Getting pulse to run in system mode took a bit of work. Since it is so frowned upon, the documentation for doing it is pretty minimal. And my distro didn't seem to have many helpful resources. Tomorrow, when I'm thinking more clearly, I'll try and document all of the steps I took to get it to work. So to all of the people (including me) who said that speakup / espeakup don't play nicely together, that's only partially correct. If you're willing to run in system mode and go against the recommendations of the pulse people, they play quite nicely together indeed. -- Chris